By default, a new Linux installation is named “localhost” or “localhost.localdomain” on many distributions. You should usually replace this with at least a hostname. And for some purposes you’ll need a fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

VirtualBox allows you to install one or more operating systems in virtual machines (VMs) on your computer without affecting your original bootloader or disk partitions. It has many uses; here I describe using it for trying new distributions without putting … Continue reading →